According to the US Library of Internal Medicine, raw aloe is not particularly poisonous. I’d look for something that’s made to treat them, though. The problems with using it straight from the plant is (a) it probably won’t taste very good, (b) it probably won’t stick in place long enough to do much good, and (c) chemical composition varies from plant to plant and even leaf to leaf.
Call a pharmacist and ask for a mouth-safe product that would help. They love to answer, that is why they went to school all those long, demanding years.
(I am not a pharmacist but have always been impressed by the ones I have worked with)
I just came in to ask you to let us know how you’re doing. We’re all rooting for you. Hopefully this isn’t too creepy, but I look for your posts on the Dope regularly because you’re an interesting, lively presence. Come back and tell us what’s up and how you’re doing.
As an American citizen residing overseas, I’m a little bit more than perturbed over this. Absentee ballot, the actual name for that option, is my only choice for casting my vote. It’s already bad enough getting that done since I must register for voting in Georgia, but this is really beyond the pale. Absentee voting is also the sole option for voting (other than simply not voting) for our deployed military personnel. It really shocks me at the number of military folks who support the orange jackass when almost everything he does relating to the military is detrimental to them.
If I were a betting person, I think I would be safe in betting that not only will my vote not get counted this year, but plenty of military votes won’t either.
Election judge here. If things go pear-shaped with registering to vote in Georgia remotely, I think that you can still go the U.S. embassy and vote a submarine ballot, or as it is officially called, a Federal Write-In Absentee Ballot. Details here: https://www.fvap.gov/uploads/FVAP/Forms/fwab2013.pdf
The reason I know this is that I got one in my precinct in 2008. It looked freaking weird and I called downtown to make sure it was legit. Nowadays we don’t deal with absentee ballots at the precinct level (and with this election I am grateful).
Another description of the submarine ballot. I remember Joe Mansky saying, “You’ll never see one of these ballots, but…”
I’m guessing most of you have never heard of a submarine ballot | MinnPost
Dammit! The new board ate my post.
Enkidu1971: I really do appreciate your response. Registering to vote was not an issue. Voting remotely for that benighted hell-hole of Dixie is the issue.
There are a few issues with voting remotely that peeve me already, but currently, the big issue is getting into the embassy (for me in Beijing) or to the consulates (for those in other areas of the country). You may know that the current US administration has begun ordering the PRC government to close consulates in the US. Thus far, that has only applied to the Houston consulate. There is no doubt the PRC will respond in kind. The next thing is how long will it take to get the thing to the appropriate voting office in the US, in my case in Georgia. There’s also the issue of having to take an entire day off without pay just to exercise the franchise.
Sending stuff by the regular mail during the current pandemic is fraught with doubt, also. There’s really no telling how long it will take for stuff to get there.
The real main issue, though, is the current administration de l’orange is doing all it can to make the United States of America no longer a functioning democracy and said administration is now targeting the one remaining viable way to prevent that from happening.
If our tortoise doesn’t poop for several consecutive days, I’ll give him a big Aloe Vera spear and it cleans him right out.
I had seen that, but hadn’t taken it too seriously at the time. Something’s definitely off here though – tracking details reveal that the package ended up at a post office in this other town, not just a sorting facility. Seems like an awful lot of effort to move packages (and, presumably, mail) excessively to ensure delayed delivery, but I guess the “how” is not a top priority as long as the delay is achieved.
Yep. Not just overseas votes…this will impact anyone who chooses an absentee ballot this year. Plenty of precincts in this area have stated that they aren’t prepared for a massive increase in absentee voting. In past years, North Carolina has allowed you to check on a website to see when your ballot has been received; I know this isn’t the case in other states though.
Oh that’s irritating.
I’ve been using þe ancient Singer sewing machine hand cranked, as the -removable, different brand- motor stopped working some years back. I decided to spend this afternoon trying to fix the motor, and succeeded, hurrah! Except… I went to attach it to the machine and the little metal bracket for doing so is nowhere to be found, it’s certainly not in the bag of sewing machine bits like it should be. I can remember what it looked like, but I have a sneaking suspicion that I left it in the chaotic share house I lived in last time I failed to fix the thing; a house where the live-in landlord repaired electrical equipment and bought and resold an assortment of random, often vintage items. A place it could frolic undetected for years with all the other assorted bits of weird metal junk.
Even if I could find a replacement for sale, the few old listings I’ve found indicate that it would probably be about the same price as getting a whole motor of a similar model. Bah.
Oh, that sucks. I hate when a part costs almost as much as buying a whole new item. So wasteful.
In a similar vein, I found a large but very short screw on the floor of my office today and have no idea where it came from. Now I get to see what falls apart to figure out where it goes!
Despair not! That’s the perfect candidate for 3D printing… or, it sounds like it could be a simple “bend a piece of metal til it works”.
Look underneath your office chair. Mine’s always dropping hardware.
I just checked, and the chair doesn’t seem to be the culprit. Everything on it seems to be in place, plus its screws are black, while the one I found is silver. The mystery deepens …
I would have said so many bad words. Could a bent coat hanger be mangled enough to work?
Beware of screws found on office floors. Always find out where they came from. When I found one in my last cube, I couldn’t find where it went and forgot about it. When remodeling happened, the movers picked up my desk and a leg fell off.
Sounds like a good candidate for either 3D printing or a machine shop; many places are willing to accept small orders. My dad mowed the lawn with a '66 Cub Cadet; when the muffler finally rusted off, he went to a local shop instead of trying to find an original. They had no problem coming up with an adapter that worked with an off-the-shelf muffler.
So it turns out, I’m just a messy idiot who can’t see stuff right in front of their face.
A happy messy idiot though.
I have seen recently, that if you disagree with something said by an other, then there is no discussion just personal attacks. No wonder there isn’t quality debates. Sad really.
You’re forgetting the part about supplying cogent reasoning so that people can attempt to respond to your points. Such as:
I’m not just saying on this board, I’m saying ir seem pervasive everywhere.
We are having a tough day. My daughter found gum in my car. I have no idea the last time I had this gum in my car. She chewed it and stuck it to the window. Now I know everything will be fine. It will wash off and she’s probably not gonna get sick from mysterious car gum. But goodness does it have me mad.